Tag: Australia

Symbols in Australian Aboriginal Art

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Picture created by Linda Huddleston. The Visual Indigenous Language that Communicates Cultural Life. First published on Medium. I published this on the blog platform, Medium, but only subscribers can read there (it's worth the small subscription, by the way, as there is a huge variety of good quality work on there), so I decided I'd …

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Spirits of the Ghan, by Judy Nunn: #BookReview.

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I love it when a new book comes my way by a serendipitous route. This one was a present from my daughter’s mother-in-law, with us for a short while over the Xmas period. She’d finished it so handed it to me rather than take it back on that long flight to Tasmania. It’s an absorbing …

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The Upside-Down History of Down Under, by Alison Lloyd and Terry Denton: #BookReview.

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304 Pages Children’s Books (8-12) This book came to me as a ‘jokey’ present from my daughter, who lives in Australia. Whilst it’s clearly a book written for children, I suspect a lot of adults will find it informative, illuminating, and entertaining, as I did. I’d love to see it used by both UK and …

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